Questions tagged [knuth]
Donald E. Knuth, creator of TeX, Metafont and the Computer Modern fonts
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Plans for evolution/support of {Xe|Lua[node|harf]}LaTeX?
Let me first give some context:
As far as I can see, the original TeX/LaTeX including rendering with pdflatex has been very reliably producing the same visual output for decades now and presumably ...
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Obtaining the absolute minimal, original TeX engine
I'm trying to obtain the absolute minimal, original TeX engine on my Windows 11, as close as possible to what Donald Knuth originally envisioned. I'm not looking for any pre-packaged distributions ...
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Hash function used by knuth on TeX program after scan process
I am studying some TeX program parts finding a lot of materials on line. I understand that "cur_cs" variable, contains the hash function value to identify the control sequence typed after ...
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Computer modern fraktur R and I
The celebrated gothic R and I glyphs are present in the Don Knuth's computer modern symbols family. Is there any "story" concerning the glyphs, e.g. why they where abandoned in the ...
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Is my method of practicing Knuth’s book good/correct?
I seek recommendations on how to approach learning Plain Tex. I am just starting my journey with TeX using Knuth’s reference The TeXbook.
I Installed TeXlive 3.14 and use the command prompt to run Tex....
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What is the picmac package useful for?
I recently found this package on CTAN by Don: https://ctan.org/pkg/picmac
But there does not seem to be any documentation online about it, could someone provide some minimal examples of it?
Apparently ...
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How to create a bibliography in plain TeX?
I know that you can use BibTeX using eplain and btxmac.tex but I am looking for a minimalist solution with at little code as possible.
I am almost tempted to do everything by hand (see Appendix B of ...
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Why did Donald Knuth create TeX?
I am aware of the basic history of TeX and LaTeX and Dr. Knuth's motivation for creating TeX. Mainly, he was disappointed with the quality of the galley proofs of the second edition of his book after ...
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Are Donald Knuth's music sheets written in TeX? [closed]
Donald Knuth composed a work for pipe organ “Fantasia Apocalyptica”
He has published the sheets on his website but I was wondering if they were typesetted using TEX or some other software (lilypond or ...
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Texlive's TeX vs Knuth's TeX
From texmf.cnf:
% But don't parse the first line if invoked as"tex", since we want that
% to remain Knuth-compatible. The src_specials and
% file_line_error_style settings, as well as the ...
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The hash function used by new_trie_op
In §944 of TeX, The Program (Volume B of Computers & Typesetting) DEK describes the hash function used by new_trie_op in order to store hyphenation tables efficiently.
Quoting him:
The hash ...
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What's new in TeX, version 3.141592653?
A new version of TeX has been released by Donald Knuth earlier this year (January/February 2021), and its version number is 3.141592653 now. What has changed since the previous release, version 3....
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Which significance does 100000000 have as overflow boundary in Pascal?
A recent conversation about bug-free software at work has lead to a discussion about TeX (which is considered virtually bug-free, while it might technically be false). Since TeX's source code is ...
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Is the DOC version of PTEX available anywhere?
At the beginning of TeX: The Program we find that
Preliminary plans to convert the SAIL code into a form
somewhat like the present "web" were developed by Luis Trabb-Pardo and
the author at the ...
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Bo Derek in texbook.tex?
texbook.tex contains a double-dangerous-bend exercise which starts at line 18198 :
\ddangerexercise ^{Powers of ten}: The whole \TeX\ language has now been
summarized completely. To~demonstrate how ...
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